Word: containment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearing completion is the new Hemenway Gymnasium on Massachusetts avenue near the Law School. Built to replace the old Hemenway Gymnasium, which was a Harvard landmark from 1878 until its removal last year to make room for the Littauer Center, the new structure will contain squash courts and other exercise facilities...
OVER 3,200 LETTERS, POST CARDS AND TELEGRAMS HAVE JUST BEEN FORWARDED HERE FROM CRUM ELBOW. OVER A THOUSAND WERE RECEIVED BEFORE I LEFT. OUT OF ALL THESE, ONLY FOUR COMMUNICATIONS-TWO LETTERS AND TWO POST CARDS ALL ANONYMOUS, CONTAIN ADVERSE CRITICISM AND ABUSE IN THE RECENT EFFORT TO TEST THE ECONOMIC THEORIES OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND FATHER DIVINE...
Having acknowledged so much, the Japanese allowed white war correspondents to approach the front, not close enough to see much fighting but close enough to see 37 nailed-up coffins said to contain the bodies of dead Russians, and the corpse of a big-boned white man in a grey-green uniform without distinguishing marks, said to be a Soviet pilot who had been shot down...
...share-which he claims to be the case-the liquidators indicated they might oppose its transfer. Meanwhile, Father Divine found his town house problems settled when some of his followers bought him (for $24,000) a brace of connecting houses on Harlem's outskirts. Thrown into one, they contain 50 rooms, a private telephone system, rubber-tiled flooring, modernistic plumbing. A neighbor: "It will be nice to be so near heaven...
...Neurath's associate editors are Professors Rudolph Carnap and Charles W. Morris of the University of Chicago. The introductory pamphlets contain articles by these three and by Denmark's Niels Bohr, England's Bertrand Russell, Columbia University's John Dewey. Scores of other savants will sound off on "Metascience" in the pamphlets and volumes yet to come...